Lydda
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Nasr Saba, who lives in Laguna Hills but was born in 1938 in Lydda — now part of Israel and called Lod — says he is “older than Israel.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2023
But he also took part in the expulsion of some fifty thousand Palestinian residents from the towns of Lydda and Ramle, situated between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 2015
As Shavit, especially, describes it, with a lot of new research, the attack on Lydda was part of a purposeful strategy of Arab removal, approved at the highest levels.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2015
In an emotional scene at Lydda airport, Premier Golda Meir hugged and kissed the two returnees.
From Time Magazine Archive
When R. José, son of Dormiskith, came to R. Eleazar at Lydda, he said to him, “what had you new in the college to-day?”
From Hebrew Literature by Wilson, Epiphanius
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